BILL NUMBER: AB 1117	CHAPTERED  07/01/99

	CHAPTER   53
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 1, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JUNE 30, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 16, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JUNE 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 15, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Calderon, Scott, Cunneen, and
Torlakson and Senators O'Connell, Brulte, and McPherson

                        FEBRUARY 25, 1999

   An act to add Section 45023.4 to the Education Code, relating to
certificated employees, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1117, Calderon.   Teacher salaries.
   Under existing law, the governing board of each school district is
generally required to establish the compensation paid to persons in
public school service that require certification.
   This bill would permit the governing board of a school district,
the county superintendent of schools, or the county boards of
education, in the 1999-2000 fiscal year, to increase the lowest
salary on the salary schedule for a certificated employee that meets
certain requirements by designating as the lowest salary on the
salary schedule an amount not to exceed $32,000.  This bill would set
forth procedures for providing per-pupil incentives to local
educational agencies for providing this increase.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 45023.4 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   45023.4.  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as
the Jack O'Connell Beginning-Teacher Salary Incentive Program.
Commencing in the 1999-2000 fiscal year the governing board of a
school district, the county superintendent of schools, or the county
board of education may increase, for teachers who meet the
requirements of this subdivision, the salary on its adopted
certificated employee salary schedule as provided in subdivision (b).
  Any school district that elects to meet the requirements of this
section shall be eligible to receive the incentive amount provided by
subdivision (c).  For purposes of this section, any teacher for whom
the governing board, county superintendent of schools, or county
board of education may increase salaries shall meet all of the
following criteria:
   (1) Hold a valid California teaching credential, not including an
emergency permit, intern permit, or waiver.
   (2) Possess a baccalaureate or higher degree.
   (3) Receive a salary paid from the general fund of the district or
county office.
   (b) The governing board, county superintendent of schools, or
county board of education that elects to increase teachers' salaries
as authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) shall perform the following
computations:
   (1) The governing board, county superintendent of schools, or
county board of education shall designate as the lowest salary on the
salary schedule for a certificated employee meeting or exceeding the
criteria in subdivision (a) an amount equal to a minimum annual
salary of thirty-two thousand dollars ($32,000).  If such a salary
change has costs to the school district or county office of education
that are equal to or greater than the incentive received pursuant to
subdivision (c), school districts and county offices of education
whose costs are less than the incentive received shall use the
remainder to increase the beginning salary by an amount above
thirty-two thousand dollars ($32,000) which fully applies the
incentive received.
   (2) The governing board, county superintendent of schools, or
county board of education shall increase to the annual salary amount
in paragraph (1) the salary of any certificated employee meeting the
criteria in subdivision (a) whose salary on the salary schedule is
less than the amount computed in paragraph (1) and, notwithstanding
Section 45028, shall incorporate that increase into the salary
schedule.
   (3) The newly adopted salary schedule shall contain only one cell
that meets the amount set forth in paragraph (1), which most often is
the first-year step of a salary schedule column for certificated
personnel who meet the criteria set forth in subdivision (a).  All
other salary schedule cells shall exceed the level set forth in
paragraph (1) for personnel that meet the criteria in subdivision
(a).
   (c) In the 1999-2000 fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall divide the amount appropriated for the purposes of
this section by the 1999-2000 second principal apportionment average
daily attendance for school districts and county offices of
education, increased by an amount necessary to compensate for the
deficit factor calculated pursuant to Sections 2558.45 and 42238.145.
  The result of this calculation shall be made available in the
1999-2000 second principal apportionment to each school district and
county office of education that certifies to the Superintendent of
Public Instruction that it is in full compliance with this section.
   (d) Each school district or county office of education that meets
the requirements of subdivision (b) may adjust its revenue limit
computed pursuant to Section 2550 or 42238 to reflect the amount
received for purposes of calculating revenue limits for the 2000-01
fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.
   (e) The adjustment to the district's revenue limit prescribed in
subdivision (d) shall continue so long as the increase in the salary
schedule made pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) is
maintained.
   (f) The adjustment made to school district or county office of
education revenue limits pursuant to subdivision (d) shall not be
considered part of the base revenue limit for the purpose of
computing equalization adjustments or determining other
wealth-related differences in school funding.
   (g) This section does not prohibit a school district and its
employees from negotiating salary schedules.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to make the statutory changes necessary to authorize
school districts to increase teaches' salaries, and to implement the
Budget Act of 1999, it is necessary for this act to take effect
immediately as an urgency measure.
